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  • God help me, it's happening. I've been binging all of Gustafa's events from AnWL and tentatively reviving old headcanons and teenaged fanfic ideas. The Simpening is upon us, and by us I mean me.

    And of course, with the remake having same-sex marriage, I've already found myself shipping him with Mark. I just THOUGHT Pete/Rick was a rarepair. I haven't even found a single MENTION of Mark/Gustafa. Then again, if I wasn't devoting my entire heart and soul to a rarepair, would it really be me?
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    *uncontrollable wheezing*

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    I feel it's important to let everyone know that this outfit is being called a "cowdigan". (I'm Extremely Happy about seeing Mark in shorts with tights, and I can't quite explain why.)

    Okay, yeah, Mark's definitely joining Pete in my arsenal of "Closeted gay dude who finds the freedom and open arms he's always needed after moving to a new place to become a farmer" character headcanons. However, while I headcanon Pete as being pretty conservative and practical in terms of things like fashion, Mark is 100% the kind of person that would experiment with different looks. I mean AWL:SE had him cycling through seasonal wardrobes, it ain't out of the question!
    Mika
    Mika
    The cowdigan is my new favorite outfit and I want to wear it myself irl omg
    STOP

    Making me WANT YOU

    ALL TOGETHER YOU'RE LIKE $5,000

    peaches2217
    peaches2217
    I went back and looked through my receipts to see exactly how much I've dropped on the Cryptonloids, then compared it to the cost of their Dollfie Dream dolls.

    Granted I got most of the older banks second-hand, but I still spent $1,000 less on owning all of Crypton's Vocaloid/Piapro releases than I'd spend on owning all of their characters' Dollfies. :gackpo_ani_lili:

    I get great ideas, I go to YouTube to hear covers for inspiration, I hear covers that blow everything I do out of the water, I lose all hope and motivation because I could never hope to top that, much less bring anyone joy with my creations, I retire my ideas and berate myself for ever thinking I could fulfill them. Repeat ad infinitum.

    I can't even mimick the OG because it's a Spanish cover of a Japanese song and I have no idea what any of the embellishments are saying because they're not in the OG, I don't speak Spanish, and they didn't bother providing lyrics
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    Twillby
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    You don't need to top anyone else to bring joy to people. Even if you could objectively say they were better than yours would be, that doesn't mean there's not an audience for your cover. Like, Ado's version of Gira Gira is practically perfection to me, but I still really enjoy listening to covers of the song anyway, for example.

    I definitely get how frustrating it can be to fight the urge to compare though. *hugs* :akasakiminato_lili:
    peaches2217
    peaches2217
    I guess it’s just that I don’t want someone listening to my stuff and going “Oh yeah, this old song! Reminds me of a cover that was waaaaaaaay better” or “Yeesh, I’m gonna go listen to the OG to cleanse my memory of that travesty”. I was introduced to the Two Cakes theory long ago, and even then all I could think was “No one gives a shit if there’s two cakes. They’re gonna gravitate to the one that’s best and the other one’s gonna go in the trash, uneaten and unloved at the end of the day.” So ever since then my only goal is to make the best possible cake, because if I can’t be the best, then I can’t be loved.

    Apologies if I sound disjointed, I’m extremely sick right now 😅
    The ongoing chronicles of the woman who's way too easily amused and keeps forgetting to edit phoneme timing before playing something back

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    Excellent:teto_lili:Would have sold me on her if I hadn't already bought her this morning XP
    AmazingStrange39
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    Is this the singing synth equivalent to Uberduck strokes?
    Peaches is Instantly Smitten With a Long-Haired, Stubbled Farming Sim Bachelor, Take 2 - 2022, JPEG on Publisher

    peaches2217
    peaches2217
    It's like Rick all over again: I'm pissed that they did away with a feature I loved (Rick's long hair between HM:(M)FoMT -> SoS:FoMT, Gustafa's full beard from HM:A(n)WL -> SoS:AWL), but the rest is so well-done that I ultimately don't even care, I'm just so happy 😭
    RUNE FACTORY 3 REMASTER

    A WONDERFUL LIFE REMASTER

    TIME TO JUMP BACK ON THE WAGON OF MY FANFICS
    Mika
    Mika
    I'm living for the redesigns. These (at least for the girls) aren't as drastic as the FoMT ones but they work so well. I think redesigning Marlin into a basic ass "hot dude" is a good move, makes young girls now want to date him. I remember wanting to play HM DS Cute but staring at the bachelors made me go "the only one who's not ugly is Skye.. Marlin and Rock are meh... the others eww...". So.. I feel it a lot lol. What's also interesting is that the website does not show all characters yet, Cody is missing for example and if that really is his redesign in the trailer then we might get drop marketing bachelor reveals. So maybe we also get Flora in AWL now?? I would love that.
    peaches2217
    peaches2217
    Something else I noticed: on the website, Muffy, Lumina, and Rock have overlays mentioning something about coming updates. I wonder what that’s about? I’d assume it was just a general acknowledgement that there’s more to be revealed about the remake, but there’s no real pattern to it, it’s just those three. Hmm.
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    hmmmmm, interesting. Ahh I can't wait for more news. I swear I will need so much money for all the very probably coming limited editions 😭
    EDIT: I'm an idiot. A much happier idiot now that I've figured out all I have to do is right-click and de-select "Automatic Line Alignment," but an idiot nonetheless.

    The fact that you can't have a Talk track and a wav file overlapping in CeVIO is such a travesty. Like,,, Takahashi needs to say all of this a specific way that takes up a specific amount of time and number of syllables, taking my best guess, exporting it, comparing it directly to the OP, and going back and guessing on the fixes I need to make is such a waste of time :haku_ibis:
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    That's really odd. I've had talk tracks at the same time as audio tracks in CS7.
    peaches2217
    peaches2217
    That’s extremely odd… I can have talk tracks in place and they’ll stay when I import a wav file, but the minute I try making any changes to the talk tracks, or adding another one in, it shoves them all to after the wav ends.
    Twillby
    Twillby
    Hooray for figuring things out! :akasakiminato_lili: Honestly it doesn't sound that intuitive a fix to me, I probably would have struggled to figure it out too
    Oh, do I have pictures for y’all! I finally bought my very first Miku figure! I caved out of sheer respect because the guy selling it was running the one booth at the con whose markups weren’t like, $20-150 more than the online price (I think she’s $25 normally and I got her for $30).

    Multiple pictures are difficult to post on mobile though, so I’ll wait until I get home at least 😅
    Two more days until we leave for the con! I did one final test-run of my cosplays tonight. My Bowsette cosplay I'm especially proud of, because it's largely scrapped-together but doesn't look too bad at the end of the day!


    I'm really excited! And a little nervous, because I'm gonna be the one driving and it's a three-hour drive. I just pray no one's critical of my, uh... somewhat rough driving. 😅
    Well, after getting torn to shreds on the Planet Fitness FB page (and one person going against group rules to PM me with resources for disordered eating, anorexia, etc. - I get that it's in good faith but isn't that a TINY bit dramatic?), I've begrudgingly raised my daily calorie intake level. It was at 1,000/day, but now I'm bumping it up to 1,200/day. I shouldn't be happy about the extra I get to eat now, but I am, so as long as I make up for it by working out harder all will be well I think!

    That's another thing I've discovered: I actually really, really enjoy working out! I find myself looking forward to going in after work and pushing myself a little bit more, then cooling off with a spacious shower (and I do mean spacious, holy shit their showers are huge). I'm even considering lifting my Cute Clothing Ban because I only implemented it in order to give myself incentive to get my exercise in. As it turns out, exercise is my incentive. Ah, I'm happy! I'll be human soon enough at this rate!
    mobius017
    mobius017
    I probably shouldn't say anything, especially since I'm sure that the folks on the Planet Fitness FB page certainly know a ton more about doing fitness properly than I do. (I just have what I remember from phys ed classes over the years.) But it seems to me like there's a disconnect between the PF FB folks advising you to consume 200 additional calories, you accepting that advice, and then you resolving to work out harder to make up for it. Naturally, the essence of losing weight is decreasing caloric intake while increasing activity such that there's a calorie deficit, which the body fills by consuming its fat stores. But I'm assuming that the point of their advice was that it should be done at a more gradual pace (I.e., have a calorie deficit, but a smaller one. A 200-calorie smaller one.), for the benefit of your health.

    You're pursuing your goal with gusto, and that's great. And you've found that you actually enjoy exercise, which is fantastic! But I'd just ask you to be careful with yourself. Pushing your body to lose weight too fast is asking for trouble. You're better off taking just a little longer and enjoying the exercise along the way. Plus, I think that working longer will probably be better for your muscles also, so you'll be maybe more toned? stronger? at least uninjured? as well as leaner, which pursues your goal of an improved body better.

    Consider also: if you do push yourself too fast and end up having to stop working out because you have injured yourself or collapsed, the downtime will undo some portion of the progress you've made, which you'll then have to redo. It seems wiser and more enjoyable to take the little bit of extra time and remain consistently healthy.

    Good luck, and congrats! If you enjoy exercising, I hope you can look forward to an enjoyable time guiding your body to a weight that is healthy for it.
    The invasive thoughts have won. I'm making Chis-A sing in archaic Estonian.

    Actually, I've found CeVIO's surprisingly good for mimicking other languages! I was able to make Sasara sing a convincing English passage, and so far Chis-A's handling the extensive timing manipulations well.

    Now comes the real trick: finding a way to post this once it's done that won't get immediately taken down, because good LORD Metsatoll's protective of their stuff. My current approach is changing the key, speeding it up, and making it acapella (which also lets me create a plentitude of harmonies for it while the original only has a single melody line, so I am, as one might imagine, a happy peach~).
    Hm... I do wish there was a way to make CeVIO AI banks softer. The Dynamics function works with varying success per vocal; with Sasara and Tsudumi, theirs help them attain more power in high notes, but do absolutely nothing to soften them up. Sasara sounds absolutely beautiful in this song I'm working on, but it's a song that calls for a more gentle voice; in that respect, she sounds almost like she's belting the lyrics.

    Welp. When all else fails, there's always Chis-A, or Ace, or Vocaloid, or maybe I could break out Miku NT for once...
    aru ii
    aru ii
    Yeah, for some reason the dynamics feature works good only on kamitsubaki banks, for the rest it just either does nothing or does very little change
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    I've also heard IA is pretty good with dynamics!
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